Who married Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan?

Alice Comyn, Countess of Buchan, Lady Beaumont (1289 – 3 July 1349) was a Scottish noblewoman, a member of the powerful Comyn family which supported the Balliols, claimants to the disputed Scottish throne against their rivals, the Bruces. She was the niece of John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, to whom she was also heiress, and after his death the Earldom of Buchan was successfully claimed by her husband Henry de Beaumont, Earl of Buchan, by right of his wife. His long struggle to claim her Earldom of Buchan was one of the causes of the Second War of Scottish Independence.

Alice was the maternal grandmother of Blanche of Lancaster, and thus great-grandmother of King Henry IV of England.

She was an attendant at the court of Isabella of France.

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Henry de Beaumont (c. 1280 – 10 March 1340), jure uxoris 4th Earl of Buchan and suo jure 1st Baron Beaumont, was a French nobleman and a key figure in the Anglo-Scots wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, known as the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Taken into service at the English court at a young age, Beaumont was a veteran campaigner who participated in every major engagement, from the Battle of Falkirk in 1298 to the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. His long experience in the Scottish wars led him to develop a battle technique later used to great effect at Crécy and Agincourt.

Beaumont was one of the most prominent among a Anglo-Scots nobles known as the 'Disinherited', nobles whose Scottish lands had been forfeited over their refusal to serve Robert the Bruce. Beaumont supported Edward Balliol in his bid for thre Scottish throne, which would eventually overturn the peace between England and Scotland established by the Treaty of Northampton and bring about the Second War of Scottish Independence.

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